Claire de Rouen Dies

By Will CarletonJanuary 17, 2012Will Carleton

Sean O’Hagan at the guardian.co.uk reports: Claire de Rouen, the founder and proprietor of the independent fashion and photography bookshop of the same name, has died after a long illness. Here

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At the turn of the 20th century, there was vast growth in press agencies and photographers due to the massive thirst for images in newspapers. Many are still in existence but others have been sold, absorbed or simply disappeared, effectively leaving gaps in the history of this industry… many agency offices were bombed during the WWII London Blitz resulting negative and print files being water damage from the hoses quenching the fires …most archives were in the building basements.

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